Lundi marche de la Seine
We decide today to visit the Grand Palais - which everyone is telling us is stunning after its renovation. It's a nice 20 minute stroll down Esplanade des Invalides from our place on a sunny spring morning. The mandatory 30 minutes queue is in progress for security and to let those bright sparks who reserved in advance pull rank on us. It turns out we have been queuing for The Golden Age of Classical India - The Gupta Empire. The other one is the queue around the corner. So we stay. It's OK but we are really here to see the magnificent building. We see a staircase - no glass roof or the wonderful construction built for the 1900 Exposition. After the Indian antiquities we circumnavigate the building looking for the entrance to the magnificence. It must be closed, given today is a public holiday. Let's get set for lunch before it gets too crowded.
Across the Champs Elysees is the Pavilion Elysee Lenotre - surely we will not get in here on such
a magnificent sunny public holiday in spring. - The gods are smiling on us - "no outside table Monsieur but a nice one inside", parfait. Apres dejeuner we walk through the gardens up to the Louvre and then along the Seine with the cyclists, roller bladers and other amblers to Ile St Louis and through both Iles before catching a Metro home.
A classic Parisian day in the parks and along the Seine.
Dinner at the local Italian joint.
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a magnificent sunny public holiday in spring. - The gods are smiling on us - "no outside table Monsieur but a nice one inside", parfait. Apres dejeuner we walk through the gardens up to the Louvre and then along the Seine with the cyclists, roller bladers and other amblers to Ile St Louis and through both Iles before catching a Metro home.